Assistant Director of Innovation

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Director of Innovation to work with Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust to take a leading role in establishing Mersey Care as the national mental health incubator Trust.

The successful post holder will be responsible for strategic and operational management for the Trusts Innovation agenda and its related business activities across multiple sites within the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care System and will be responsible for leading the mental health incubator work and organisational, ICB and supporting the potential deployment in other locations nationally. This post has a core focus on care-coordination, better effective care and decision making in mental health risk, predictions & crisis resolution, to deliver better care at lower cost.

As an organisation we are committed to our Perfect Care Goal on Anti-racism and so are employing positive action where we know there is underrepresentation and for this position therefore, we encourage applications from people who are from BME communities.

The Equality Act (2010) permits Mersey Care as a defined public authority, to take steps to address inequity and underrepresentation as positive action, and this includes our approach for this position.

To lead and develop the strategic and operational development of Mersey Care Innovation, including taking a leading role in establishing Mersey Care as the national mental health incubator Trust.

Responsible for strategic and operational management for the Trusts Innovation agenda and its related business activities across multiple sites within the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care System.

Responsible for leading the innovative incubator work and Organisational, ICB and supporting the potential deployment in other locations nationally. Focusing on care-coordination, better effective care and decision making in mental health risk and predictions & crisis resolution. Developing its strategy, ensuring implementation and that performance targets, strategic objectives are met; contributes to corporate policies and strategy.

Accountable for innovation and incubator related staff, budgetary management and making decisions and recommendations regarding funding on behalf of the Trust. along with attracting and managing external funding. This includes managing multiple budgets aligned to multiple commissioners, covering multiple services all with unique budgetary, quality and safety information and requirements.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Developing the strategy and strategic direction of the mental health incubator site, delivering the first in-patient quality and safety dashboard services in the context of the trust's overall strategy, exploring and leading deployment into services within Merseycare and additional trusts.

Leading and managing evaluation of projects and exploring commercial opportunities beyond the existing footprint of the services .

Developing and managing the innovation incubator, including the annual business plan, progress and dashboard reporting and risk and issue management.

Liaising with functions with the Trust as required to manage the service.

Managing all dashboard related business returns, including planning and workforce returns.

Providing the oversight and management of all aspects of the service budget.

Leadership of change and transformation projects and programmes to agreed time, quality, and cost.

The planning, monitoring and control of programmes of work with multiple projects and assignments using programme management methodologies e, g Managing Successful Programmes (MSP), relevant and scaled to the activity.

Regular reporting of service progress to senior responsible officers, programme boards and other executive level boards both internal to Mersey Care and external to Integrated Care Board.

Resource planning and identifying interdependencies.

Producing and reviewing documents for presentation to the Trust Executive and Senior Leadership Team, Customer Executives, and report to relevant customer executive level boards along with Integrated Care Board led groups.

Building and maintaining effective operational and project teams, providing appropriate development opportunities and support.

Working with customers / clients to interpret national strategy into local delivery plans.

Working with customers / clients to develop a digital response to their local health and care priorities.

Ensuring effective stakeholder management and communications.

Being the primary lead for collaboration between partner organisations in the delivery of specific programmes, projects and assignments related to quality and safety metrics.

Work closely with care professionals, clinicians and managers within the Trust and across Cheshire and Merseyside ICS to ensure alignment of the Service with the delivery of strategic objectives, including the achievement of financial balance.

Assess the opportunities, new methods, products or developments, formulating and agreeing proposals with all stakeholders that will contribute to overall improvements in care, clinical and business processes via the use of digital tools and technologies.

Provide expert advice to Mersey Care and other stakeholders in relation to risk stratification, quality and safety metrics underpinned by a dashboard algorithm.

Write business cases, options appraisals, cost benefit analysis and impact assessments in support of complex programmes, projects and assignments.

Analysing and summarising relevant information from a wide range of sources national guidance, local policies and standards, financial reports and budgets, technical specifications, and capabilities).

Responsible for the asset management of dashboard system, along with procurement and contract related activity.

Represent Mersey Care's interests with the national team and the Cheshire and Merseyside ICB colleagues helping to improve the digital infrastructure to support dashboard infrastructure along with system interoperability, the shared care record and utilization of population health management data.

Developing links with both real-world researchers and university academic research teams to help evaluate the impact of in-patient dashboard, publish articles and contribute to the global and local evidence base.